iEmulator for Mac1.7.9

I was a bit sceptical at first: how come this bit of software is so much more affordable than other commercial emulators? Whats the catch? Also, I am mainly working with Adobe After Affects (only got a Windows license), which eats up all my iMacs ressources. But my fears were unfounded: despite a slow windows install (but that could be due to a scratched CD), all my multimedia apps (incl. AE) were rendering just fine *thumbs up*

I just had occasion to reinstall iemulator, and it reminded me what a great program it is. the manual is truly exceptional. Installing windows is enough to give anyone gray hair, but the manual really takes you through it step by step. It took a while, but was a snap. Then I installed the program which was the reason why I got iemulator in the first place, and it worked perfectly. I did have one question though and it was answered immediately. I really couldn't be happier.

I was ready to chuck iEmulator, as I upgraded to a MacBook, but version 1.7.9 runs very well (and quite quickly) on the notebook. It's much faster than it ran on the PowerPC, and although my GPS STILL isn't recognized by Windows, sound now works perfectly, and even Windows XP is perfectly usable. A great update!

Thank you for taking my advice and using Jasper Hauser's excellent icon set and a unified toolbar. Although only a minor change iEmulator looks wonderful now and it really shows that you listen to your customers.

This counters my previous positive review. iEmulator appears to be completely derivative of the open-source Q (http://www.kberg.ch/q/). Use Q instead.

Odd.. Lot's of claims how well it works. But none bad? With OSX 10.3.9 and iEmulator 1.7.7 nothing happens if you create a new pc or import one. Goes through all the motions with buttons and such but after it's done , nothing. With OSX 10.3.9 and iEmulator 1.7.6 you can't resize the window or change PC resolution without a crash to the guest PC. Fixed already in 1.7.7? With OSX 10.4.x , All seems fine and a bit speedier. I can play MSN Zone Games against the girlfriend with iEmulator. VPC can't do MSN Zone and it's made by the same MS idiots. Speedwise, after you update and tweak it to suit your needs it's very stable and almost as quick as VPC without a hefty price tag like VPC. iEmulator is far leaner than VPC and will one day be far faster. Version 2 maybe? Lot's of work yet for this great software and it's on the right track and offers some hope for Mac users that are forced to use Windoze.

I have used both VPC and iEmulator running Windows 98, The speed difference is noticeable but slim. This is because they are both rather slow if used often. There is a limit to the amount of features VPC can pack in. I hope that any next versions concentrate on speed only. That would make it a worthwhile product. Anyway, this review is about iEmulator. Now, iEmulator has a chance to make an emulator speedy and not get bogged down in features. They can add those later. The latest version is much better, but you really can tell that the interface was designed by programmers. PLEASE hire a graphic designer for the interface. Pause would be nice too. iEmulator has now surpassed QemuX in terms of features. iEmulator has never crash (for me anyway) and $25 or whatever it is, is perfectly reasonable for some of the quickest support ever plus a really good product.

Nah, it works fine with W2K, and this version is WAY better than the previous. Namely, they changed networking in such a way that I can now access the internet via my LAN at work. Let's face it, we're only using Windoze because we have to, and iEmulator is as good as any other emulator--much better for the price.

IEmulator is very unstable application. It works fine unless you install Windows on it. Many of Windows applications crashes with Page fault or something else. The developers should increase stability and compatibility of its application.

I've been using iEmulator for the past month and this application is a joy to use. Before I bought iEmulator, I emailed them to ask a few questions, one of which was: 'Is there any risk of opening my mac up to attacks from viruses etc, if i install this programme? i know that the mac has its security feature which prevents anything from being installed without authorisation.' That was exactly what I asked (just copied and pasted from the email I sent), Viruses were my main concern. I was so impressed when I was emailed straight back with the answer to my question (not to mention my other questions, I had 4 to begin with): 'iEmulator is very insulated from the Mac environment; the worst that can happen is that your emulated PC gets infected, but it cannot affect any Mac files and folders in any way.' I commend the iEmulator team for being very honest. I had trouble purchasing iEmulator (user error), but again Richard, one of the iEmulator team was there to help, and made every effort to figure out the problem, never the less it was a user error (short on funds ~ lol) I told Richard that I had been researching emulators to run MS Access, and had seen reviews of VPC which stated that version 7 was not as good as version 6. His reply to that was very honest indeed: 'We fully admit that VirtualPC is a more mature application, and provides better performance in most (but not all!) cases, but we're closing the gap quickly. By version 2.0 (due near the end of the year) we hope to be at least on parity with VPC.' Since I've not used VPC I can't really talk about it, but I did say that in my opinion that iEmulator is 'on par' with VPC. I bought iEmulator, the documentation included with iEmulator is phenomenal, its tells you step by step how to install iEmulator and gives a step by step guide of how to install Windows. I hit alittle snag, which was due to the Windows 98 installer not booting from the virtual cd drive. Richard was there 100% with a solution, which worked a treat. I then installed Windows, its was an 'experience' for me since I've never installed Windows before, what made me laugh was that the installer reboots itself after it does something, i think it rebooted after 'hardware test' or something, but it did it quite often. the trouble then was that when Windows had installed, it wouldn't let me access the Windows environment since it couldn't find some of its own files, which is hilarious and really bad at the same time, its the only installer I've ever used where it cant find its own files. I emailed Richard again and he was really quick with a response and a solution, that worked 100%, AWESOME!! So now I have the superior strengh of Tiger, and can run MS Access, result! I use iEmulator for other things too, such as checking compatability with Office on the PC and trying out Windows only applications, such as WinRar. I believe this to be the BEST and SAFEST way to run Windows on a Mac! I'm not part of the iEmulator development team, I just believe that Exceptional products should be recognised. I highly recommend this product to any Mac user that needs to run Windows only apps, such as MS Access, and I found other uses for it too, I can check the websites I build in iEmulator, to see how they look on Windows. The price is excellent too, $23.95 for a fully functional PC. Oh and they work weekends too! Thank You for reading

This looks like a front end for QEMU which has some new features when compared to Q or QemuX. I suppose if you want the email support and the 'state saving' feature (like virtual pc) then it could be worth the money which is not much actually considering you get email support. The competition, QemuX works fine for me and yes if the other QEMU emulators out there are any indication of speed this one is bound to be a bit slow.

Lack of demo, a few shill like rave reviews on some of the earlier comments at other sites which have been subsequently rebuked by some who actually bought it and found it to be slow (no surprise there since if it sounds too good to be true...), and that solitaire video demo (which reminded me of the one CherryOS had) is a good indication to take a caveat emptor approach to this company and its products.

It's funny because on those demonstration videos on the website it says QEMU on the top of the window. Hahahah! PWND!

I think iEmulator is good for the money, however, for an even better price (i.e. free) you can get QemuX which does all the things iEmulator does, except I don't think it does state saving.

what exactly is that open source on called?

I agree! I wanted to demo iemulator with a view to buying 28 copies for the designers at work because they need to run MS Access and they refused!.................... As it happened we now all run Remote Desktop to a Win 2003 server which is a million times faster than any emulator and about the same price!

Isn't it even more interesting that there is no demo whatsoever and the only answer to the question: "Can I see iEmulator in action before I purchase it?" is: "Absolutely! We've put together a couple of video clips showing just how fast iEmulator is capable of running both DOS and Windows (including MS Office XP). You can view them by clicking here." Which doesn't work (at least on Safari)...

Is iEmulator based on the BOCHS emulator? [...snip...] In all of the tests we've tried, our solution, based on the powerful QEMU codebase, runs significantly quicker! [snip] source code for the Open-Source components ... are available at http://www.iemulator.com/source/iEmulator1.7.6Source.sit

Isn't it interesting that the Bochs update came out yesterday , another PC Emulator (opensource mind you) ,and this came out today?